its been a while......

well its been a while...

I'm now at the every end of pregnancy, the bit here your feet swell and walking 5 minutes down the road seems to take all day! Work is definitely on the back burner at the moment and the nesting instinct as well and truly kicked in. not only is my house the tidiest its every been, my 'stuido' (essentially a shelving unit covered in fabric, thread and ribbon) is all packed away and replaced with baby stuff!
Its my sons first summer holidays, and we had the chance to go away for a week to France, at 34 weeks pregnant it was a challenge, it was hot, and humid and I slept a LOT but it was an amazing week full of very happy memories, good food and lots of photos!
I have had time for a little bit of making, its sometime really lovely to just make something for fun....
My son tried his hand at plate decorating, he painted, I traced over his lines, it will be fired and ready to use as a real plate in a weeks time!
I also made a start on a baby mobile, I have big plans for it, with elephants, clouds and balloons, and I hope it will be done in time!

not getting very much done..........

So as the weekend draws to an end, its dawned on me that I have actually not done a lot! I did finish one Me&My design, that's been in my head for a while, but with orders for other designs coming in, its hard to find the time to do something just because you want to! this baby grow is available at my Etsy shop

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MeMyUk

I also spent much of the weekend trying to get my son interested in crafts, basically if it involves making monsters and gluing things to paper he is good to go! 

( I drew the monsters, as he just wanted to do noses and googly eyes)

 

My Home........

 

 

 

Because I work from home, and tend to roam around into different rooms with sewing in hand, I often don't notice or appreciate the things I own, so today I decided to go around and snap some pictures of the things that mean something to me, 1.Paper art from Shanghai 'fake markets', these remind me of my brother who lives in China, and the time I spent over there visiting him. 2.this amazing folded, quilt thing, I don't even know what it is, a coaster maybe? bought at a  craft fair because my stall was opposite and I thought it was stunning. 3. the green bling ring was bought in NYC in China town on a cold April morning when I was on holiday there with my boyfriend. 4.the two toys are made by me for my son and are the only mouse and owl I've ever made like them. 5.this is a silhouette of my son playing my Granddad's old piano. he must have been only 6 months old and was obsessed with it! and finally 6. Prints bought in Paris in a street market, literally cost about 5euros for all of them, but framed they are my favourite things on the wall.

 

and that's a snap shot of my home...... I spend far to much time on pintrest looking for ideas and not enough time enjoying what's around me!